Online t-shirt business anyone?

T-shirts are way too cool, and very popular along Universityand college students, it is what most teenagers or even the work adults tend to look for after a pair of Jordan’s or Yeezy. T-shirts can easily help reduce an age gap, to get along with the new generation, helps fit in.

Today,even office attires are being changed to much more casual forms, big tech companies like Google or Facebook took it to the next level of office wear, employees nowadays wear much more casual tee during office hours, for company employee’s wellbeing and their contribution is everything that matters to them. I think t-shirts are much more comfortable, unlike shirt, you don’t have to worry about ironing or ruining the texture, it also reflects a friendly vibe.

If you notice, most celebrities or famous personalities,will sell a lot merchandises on their website, specially T-shirts because, selling T-shirts online has become a popular business choice. For many small businesses, starting an online T-shirt brand is a great and inexpensive way to start an online business.

There's no doubt you'll be facing some stiff competition because with the growth in popularity of t-shirts business, more entrepreneurs are stepping into this business. For an instance, Fear or god, it wasn’t really popular physical store until, Justin Bieber started to wear clothes of this brand, now they’re so popular, they’re shipping worldwide.

First of all, you will need people, people that can rely on and produce unique designs or enhance the popular trends, in other words designers. Secondly, you need suppliers, that can offer you greater quality fabrics or supply ready-made solid color shirts, buying in bulks is a greater opportunity for you, enjoy discounts as well. Next step is the technology needed to produce, a unique fancy T-shirt, Although the tools and technology are available nowadays for designing, printing and shipping your product.

Everything business has some tools that give them a competitive edge against the competitors, most online T-shirt business won’t do this, but you’re can offer your customer an opportunity to customize their own design, then that definitely gives you a competitive edge. Start with a niche market, the success that niche market, can lead to target a large audience online.

If your product Is a good quality product, and you’re able to satisfy your customer needs than there will an awareness of your business,which can be massive for any business.

April 5, 2017, 7:31 am

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Great Idea getting T-shirts printed some companys charge a lot for there business. I was funny enough wanting the walking dead one creating was going to create a few and let some members win some on my walking dead facebook page but it's the cost really . But great post and good ideas mate.

I used to follow some cool websites that would put up t-shirt designs that were only available for 24 hours to purchase. It created this sort of "I need to buy it before it's not available" frenzy. I don't know how many shirts I bought through them that I really didn't need.

Your comment made me think of that because during the 2012 election, I bought a shirt from one of those sites that said "Grimes 2012 | This isn't a democracy anymore". It got me thinking that someone designed that shirt simply with text in a manner that was creative and referenced the show without violating any copyright or trademark laws. Given the huge fanbase of The Walking Dead, that's a great strategy for selling tees. If you can come up with legal ways to reference things like Breaking Bad, Parks and Rec, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things or what have you, you could probably make a killing off of t-shirt sales.

TheArticulate,
Your post about tees here actually gave me some ideas about how to market other products under that "it's gone in 24 hours" appeal or tactic. I would be apt to buying cool tees under that circumstance as well. I wonder if i could sell eBooks in the same way? I do a lot of original artwork too, so it might be cool to put that on t-shirts and then try to do some aggressive marketing as mentioned above. I wonder how much of a profit could be made, however, after paying for the printing of the shirts, using quality fabrics, using quality design materials which don't fade too fast, etc. I would not want to cut corners and put out a shabby product.

In the discussion about Tshirt design, most of the time the participants are focused on the T shirt prints. It is true that prints (text, graphics, images, infographs etc.) on the T shirt adds value, however, we should also talk about placements of buttons (how about using button on the shoulder instead of chest) neck design (v neck, o neck, oval neck etc.). I have often thought about T shirt business, but I don't think I have skills to design T shirt(an I don't mean just the prints)

Indeed. But he forgot to mention some other vital and necessary things to point out like materials and the equipments needed. Also what type of t-shirt printing because there are a lot of kinds of printing. The most common now would be the lazer printing. We also have vinyl and silk screen printing, and dark transfers too. But if you offer all those types of printing services, then you should have a very big printing company.

About this, I rather buy synthetic fiber t-shirts instead of cotton ones, they're cheaper and usually they're stretching. Is not the most desirable fabric, but let's face it, people won't be using a brand printed t-shirt 24/7, so I think they're more than good for promoting. In case you want to sell them for business, that's another story, there you have put good investment, because clients are looking for price/quality value, and that requires great fabrics and cool printings.

"But he forgot to mention some other vital and necessary things to point out like materials and the equipments needed."

I've never done it myself, but I think that most people printing t-shirts these days don't really do it themselves, so worrying about materials and equipment isn't really an issue on their end. Take for example a lot of the merchandise that YouTubers put out for their channels. Unless you're PewDiePie and have the kind of money that allows you to literally start your own brand, you're usually going to be working through some sort of third party site, like 1shirt or sharkrobot. You submit the designs, and everything else is handled on their end.

I'm sure, you're gonna have a good business as long as you can provide a good quality product and a good design. It will all depend on the design itself. Everyone buys their T-shirt base on the design and quality. It's also a good idea to talk to big companies to you're gonna make a t-shirt logo of their company to sell it to their employees or to give them as a uniform.

I am a T-shirt designer myself and I love designing unique and colorful t-shirts. I admit that T-shirts is already trending when it comes to business. A different company started their own brand and label which mostly expensive. As T-shirt designer your ideas are cool and I like it. I hope someday we can collaborate and maybe build of something new designs and concept.

Wow, nice work and business sir. I'll admit that t-shirt printing business is my dream business as well, like I love how people would buy a text design for a 100$. And also, I do love drawing and making digital art on Photoshop or on Adobe Illustrator. I love to change the street wear scene here in my country.

I believe we can do business using Amazon Merch. All we need to do is to upload our artwork, fill in some details. Amazon will handle production,
shipping, and customer service. This is really great for those freelance designers as a way to make more income. However, you need to fill in an application to get invited for this program.

That actually sounds great although the problem is that it may result in very small profits. Since Amazon is taking on all the work and the fact that you are using their site for selling the product as well, it will probably mean you make an absolutely tiny amount of commission per sale. But I guess it is better than nothing especially since getting into the t-shirt printing business can be quite expensive. You need to develop your own site, advertise and have the technology to print on t-shirts.

I've considered trying to get into T-shirt design before, but I just don't have the artistic or graphic design skills to make something worthwhile. I have, however, talked to my sister about doing shirt designs because she's a phenomenal artist. Our idea was to apply to sell on Amazon Merch and upload our designs there. We'd browse popular t-shirt designs and try to come up with our own unique twists and takes on them, but we never got around to developing a line of designs.

I have done it before but my skills are pretty rusty so I have lost touch with the newer software.I think I need to start coming out with artworks again to practice. I do wonder how Amazon Merch select the candidates.

I think it's worth it to delay the sales period to get the conceptualization period right first. These days it's so easy for anyone to sell their own shirt designs so a lot of people are doing just exactly that, which is why it's more important than ever to set your own company apart from others. I have seen many people attempt to start a business this way because it's easy enough to enter it, but rarely do I see any of them stick around because they just don't have a solid game plan before beginning to sell.

The online t-shirt business was amazing the past two years because people were starting to buy more things online and people were going crazy for customizing products. A personal t-shirt was a great product for yourself if you wanted something funny or even as a gift for a loved one. But the problem with this market is that it is now full of businesses. There are so many online t-shirt businesses that it is just almost impossible to enter the market as a small business and do well. You would be pushed hard on profits and keeping your price low would affect you massively.

Precisely what I'm thinking about. I along with my college friends tried penetrating the T-shirt business in the early 90's with our own label "scattered Image" .

We used 2 color design methods, Modern Tie-Dyed and Hand Painted Air Brush. Our shirts are quite unique in the design department. But sadly it didn't last, because even though were into niche selling we had a lot of competition. Online marketing wasn't really popular back then. Sometimes I think about relaunching it again but my friends are all busy with their own businesses. It was a good idea at the wrong time.

One thing that I have come to understand is that with the world going digital in the recent years, almost everything has been taken to online level especially when it comes to any kind of business. People even seem to have more confidence in buying items online than going for direct purchases. So therefore, having said that, I'm pretty convinced that starting up an online T-shirt business is definitely going to be a good hit.

T-shirt business is a really lucrative business, if you can keep up with the trends and get something unique up the scratch.
T-shirt business is a crafty and tricky business, people who make real bucks through t-shirts, are people who catch the trends and act fast on it, before it becomes saturated.
And then comes the Pencil guys, these guys come into plane, when the trend is already saturated, they heat up the polity with their fascinating and artistic design thereby giving others a run for their money.
T-shirt business is a really cool business for people who know their onions

What makes it hard is to identify the types of design preferred by the target segment. I guess having cool and innovative designs with high quality artwork does make it more attractive. However, some simple designs are preferred by the market too. This is pretty tricky to decide whether a design can be popular among the targeted market.

A design can be more popular than the other under the same targeted segment, when the design in question scraps through the popular interest in the target market, maybe with it's combination of color or the act of standing out among other artworks, even with thesame message.

Every brand should be represented by a line of t-shirts and maybe even hoodies. But there are two important things to realize. First, your supplier must make your apparel from high quality materials and designs. Nothing that rips or tears easily or fades or bleeds after going through the washer once or twice. Two, you should also offer your apparel in as many sizes as possible. From small - all the way up to XXL. Some people like their clothing to fit snuggly on them. Other people like more loose fit.

One of the problems in this line of business is that the competition is very steep. There are literally thousands of brands out there trying to get a piece of the pie and if your product is not exceptional it wouldn't even scratch the market.

That is very true. The thing is just like any product out there in the market, if one gives out high quality and puts an extra effort in the product marketing, it wouldn't be impossible to get customers. It isn't as easy as pie just like what you said, but if you get lucky it will give you good opportunities.

When it comes to clothes, there is no way for you to be able to provide all the needed variety that all the customers are looking forward to having. If you get this particular design today, they will ask for another tomorrow and so on. You can will have to stock up on daily basis, or monthly or yearly basis in order to keep your business clients coming in for more.

July 1, 2018, 7:59 am

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